Art Of The Day Weekly
#395 - from 2 July 2015 to 8 July 2015
Jean-Baptiste Belley, série Diaspora, 2014. Avec l’aimable autorisation de l’artiste et de la galerie MAGNIN-A, Paris
The Rencontres at 46
ARLES - A new phase is opening for the Rencontres de la photographie in a very symbolic year: one of its founders in 1970, Lucien Clergue, passed away a few months ago while was taking place the delicate transition between François Hebel, the general commissar since 2001, and his successor, Sam Stourdzé, who just left the musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne. The latter wishes to mark his mandate with the breaking-down of boundaries: photography crosses with music (the encounter between Martin Parr and Mathieu Chedid), with cinema (the photos by Paul Ronald on the shooting of Fellini’s 81/2) and even with architecture. Some unexpected collectors are staged, such as Tony Oursler or Jean-Marie Donat. And the future seems to be assured with the foundation stone of the École nationale supérieure de la photographie and the construction site of the Luma foundation: it is a 56 meter tall building designed by Frank Gehry which is finally going forward after all the debates it gave birth to.
• Les Rencontres de la photographie wil be held from 6 July to 20 September 2015.